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Best Of 2024 Full Interview: Mayor Eric Adams Speaks On The Migrant Crisis, Safety In New York, Policing, Homelessness + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning breakfast club.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we got a special guest in the building today,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, the mayor Eric Adams.
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  Speaker 3: And we also have lawyer and political commentator Ola Yamy
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  Speaker 3: right here. Good morning, Good morning, man.
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  Speaker 1: Good good.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you know, even before we get into the conversation,
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  Speaker 4: I was with Jordan the other day, my son, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: somehow your name came up and there was a group
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  Speaker 4: of young people in the room talking about politics. It's
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  Speaker 4: amazing how so many people are into politics now.
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  Speaker 1: And they came up with.
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  Speaker 4: Saying something about there were people saying that how you
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  Speaker 4: were trying to push Trump, push Trump, push Trump. So
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  Speaker 4: Jordan pulled up this video one of your shows, or
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  Speaker 4: when you broke down each time you were talking about
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  Speaker 4: what was wrong about his race, and just broke it
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  Speaker 4: down piece by piece, and Jordan said that, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: truth doesn't matter anymore, No, folks, people don't care about truth,
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  Speaker 4: about the fact facts no longer exist.
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  Speaker 5: I've never put Trump actually do the opposite exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but we are in a generation where everyone gets
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  Speaker 4: up in the morning, look on social media and whatever's
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  Speaker 4: on there. They identified as the facts, the headlines exactly.
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  Speaker 1: No one goes into the body of the story.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's just well, you know what, this is what the
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  Speaker 4: headline said, and that's the reality of it. And so
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  Speaker 4: it was like an eye opener for him of how
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  Speaker 4: I said, Jordan, for over and over again, that one
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  Speaker 4: moment took away all those years of me saying, have
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  Speaker 4: your own facts. Don't let anybody define for you. You
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  Speaker 4: define for yourself. That's you know, that's the power of
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  Speaker 4: this microphone, that's the power of media putting those facts out.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't control the message, the message will control us.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot to talk about today your city.
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  Speaker 2: So today we reported earlier about congestion, pricing, right, what's
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  Speaker 2: your what's your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's gonna it's gonna cripple New York City.
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  Speaker 2: You got a lot of people. The bridges already, the
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  Speaker 2: tolls already high. It's seventeen dollars I think for George
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  Speaker 2: Washington eleven dollars for the Midtown tunnels. Parking is extremely high. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: And now getting into the city it's gonna be even
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna hurt a lot of people even drive in
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  Speaker 2: the city, and people are scared of the subways.
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  Speaker 6: You know what everything's been going on.
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  Speaker 2: People getting you know, pushed into the train station's crime,
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  Speaker 2: and people are scared of New York City.
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  Speaker 5: That's a lot, let's.
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  Speaker 4: A lot hold on. But let's let's break it down
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  Speaker 4: for a moment. Let's break it down in pieces so
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  Speaker 4: we can really understand it. First, let's deal with the
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  Speaker 4: stuff about people are scared of the subways. When I
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  Speaker 4: became mayor, no one wanted to be on the subway.
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  Speaker 4: We got over four million daily riders. I talked to
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  Speaker 4: one of my guys, I was talking to your sisty
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  Speaker 4: the other day and she said, you know, you have
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  Speaker 4: about two three hundred crimes happening on the subway system.
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  Speaker 4: We have six felonies a day on our subway system
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  Speaker 4: out of four million riders. Look at those numbers. Our
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  Speaker 4: subway system is a safe system. And we put it
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  Speaker 4: in a different ditional thousand offices to do the high
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  Speaker 4: visibility to deal with the reality because it's not only
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  Speaker 4: felt is perceived.
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  Speaker 1: So if those six felonies we got to get rid of,
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  Speaker 1: we're clear on that. But people are.
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  Speaker 4: Back on our subway system. But when you deal with
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  Speaker 4: specifically congesting prices. A lot of people don't realize these
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  Speaker 4: are the city streets. But we had no authority on it.
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  Speaker 4: Aubany passed the law and turn it over to the MTA.
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  Speaker 4: This is the MTA's baby. They should have allowed the
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  Speaker 4: city to be able to control how congesting pricing was done.
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  Speaker 1: So that fifteen dollars.
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  Speaker 4: We were able to fight to get one hundred million
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  Speaker 4: dollars to deal with the environmental impact in the Bronx.
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  Speaker 4: We were able to fight to get those who are
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  Speaker 4: shift brocused get a discount, those who make less than
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  Speaker 4: fifty thousand dollars to get a discount. But this was
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  Speaker 4: a bill that came out of Albany.
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  Speaker 6: So you don't agree with it, or do you agree
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  Speaker 6: with it?
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  Speaker 1: No? I agree. We got to deal with something with
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  Speaker 1: the congestion in our city.
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  Speaker 4: But you don't pass on the course of that on
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  Speaker 4: low income New Yorkers or those who have to come
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  Speaker 4: to Manhattan. You may have to go into your chemother,
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  Speaker 4: and this is the doctor you have to go to.
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  Speaker 4: You should not be hit over there because.
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  Speaker 6: People that live in the area.
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  Speaker 2: They're saying that that people that actually live in the
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  Speaker 2: area when they drive, if they got to drive uptown
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  Speaker 2: to the doctor.
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  Speaker 6: They got to drive. They get charged too.
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  Speaker 1: Yich.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm not feeling people that live in the area
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  Speaker 4: central Manhattan east up south of sixtieth Street as the
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  Speaker 4: best transportation system on the globe. You got Crosstown trains,
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  Speaker 4: you have South and North trains, you have buses that
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  Speaker 4: go across town. There's no place else on the globe
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  Speaker 4: that you have the greatest access to public transportation than
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  Speaker 4: people south of sixtieth Street. So I'm not feeling them
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  Speaker 4: if they're saying that, you know, we don't have to
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  Speaker 4: we don't want to pay you know what, you need
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  Speaker 4: to get on the train.
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  Speaker 1: I take the train, you know, so you could get
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  Speaker 1: on the train.
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking about low income New Yorkers should not have
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  Speaker 4: to carry the burden of that, and we ask to
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  Speaker 4: have more and a greater input and the shaping of that,
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  Speaker 4: but we don't. People don't often realize we're creatures of Aubany.
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  Speaker 4: Albany passed the laws. We have to implement the laws
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  Speaker 4: that are down here.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you're right. There is a difference between
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  Speaker 7: perception and fact and how people feel about safety and
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  Speaker 7: the way people feel about the subways, And I think
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  Speaker 7: it's your own rhetoric about the subways that has a
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  Speaker 7: lot to do with why people feel scared, despite the
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  Speaker 7: fact that millions of people ride the subway every day
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  Speaker 7: without incident. But you've continued to fare monger about crime
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  Speaker 7: in the subways. You've added two thousand police officers, despite
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  Speaker 7: the fact that you've acknowledged that the subways are not
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  Speaker 7: that dangerous. And I think there is your right poor
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  Speaker 7: New Yorker should not be the ones who bear the
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  Speaker 7: brunt of this, but they will if they already have
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  Speaker 7: the subway being turned into a place that they have
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  Speaker 7: to fare, that there's a National Guard, that there's a
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  Speaker 7: hyper visibility of police, that they're trying to stop people
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  Speaker 7: with certain records from even using them, and now you
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  Speaker 7: have this congestion price. So how do you reconcile that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's go before.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, I would love to give me give
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  Speaker 4: me the quotes on my rhetoric, because I'm lost in that.
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  Speaker 1: Can you give me the.
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  Speaker 7: Question that you fairmonger about the subways. Oh, you've consistently
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  Speaker 7: done that since the day one of your administration. One
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  Speaker 7: of the first things you did was add a thousand
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  Speaker 7: officers to the subway because you clained that the subways
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  Speaker 7: are unrideable. You at Hoko did this and said how
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  Speaker 7: dangerous it is, and you recently did that when you
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  Speaker 7: deployed the National Guard.
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  Speaker 4: But that's how that wasn't my question my questions. What
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  Speaker 4: was my fear mongerment? What did I say?
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  Speaker 7: You continuously say. I could point to a number of
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  Speaker 7: videos and quotes and everything from you, but you've said
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  Speaker 7: repeatedly that the subways are dangerous, that New York is dangerous.
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  Speaker 7: You complain about crime relentlessly. So what I'm saying to
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  Speaker 7: you is if you are saying that New York is
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  Speaker 7: the safest city, it's one of the safest big cities
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  Speaker 7: in this country, which is true, and you're recognizing that
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  Speaker 7: the subway stations are in fact not half as dangerous
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  Speaker 7: as they're presented to be. I'm saying, how do you
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  Speaker 7: reconcile how your rhetoric has played into people's fair and
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  Speaker 7: not even just rhetic.
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  Speaker 3: I would say the actions, because she's right, if you
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  Speaker 3: tell us which define the safe, it is different, but
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  Speaker 3: it's the same thing. Though you put a thousand police
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  Speaker 3: officers in the subway, two thousand in the subway.
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  Speaker 5: That don't make us feel saying we think something's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't let me let me.
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  Speaker 4: First, let me peel back again, because you always peel
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  Speaker 4: back this stuff, you know, because of oftentimes how you're
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  Speaker 4: depict in the media. That I don't control is how
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  Speaker 4: people interpret you. I didn't put the National Guards in
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  Speaker 4: the subway. The governor did.
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  Speaker 7: I know. But I know what you said. But you
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  Speaker 7: said Eric, you you stood with Governor cafee Hoche and
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  Speaker 7: you co signed that decision. You did. And I'm not
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  Speaker 7: saying that as someone who's fall on social media. I'm
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  Speaker 7: saying that as an attorney in the city and an
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  Speaker 7: activist who follows everything that you do.
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  Speaker 4: If you I'm glad you do, and then you realize
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  Speaker 4: how I turned the city around.
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  Speaker 1: If you follow everything I do.
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  Speaker 7: You realize that I would say no, but we could
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  Speaker 7: get to that.
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  Speaker 4: Maxis your time, man, A long day, listen, and I
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  Speaker 4: enjoy every moment, you know, cause this is what I do.
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  Speaker 4: You know when you when you come with a serious history,
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  Speaker 4: if you follow everything you do, I do.
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  Speaker 1: You know how long I've been doing this and you
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  Speaker 1: know what my record is.
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  Speaker 4: So let's peel back what you just stated when people
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  Speaker 4: fear is perceived and felt, that's what fear is. So
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  Speaker 4: no matter as I shared that we have six felony
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  Speaker 4: crimes a day with four million riders, if people feel
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  Speaker 4: unsafe when we get in the subway system. I ride
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  Speaker 4: the subway system and I talk to commuters and I say,
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  Speaker 4: what are you feeling and how do I help you
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  Speaker 4: with that fear? They said, we see more visible uniform
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  Speaker 4: offices in our subway system, We're going to feel safe.
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  Speaker 1: We got we got it. Oh, let me.
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  Speaker 7: You can talk, you can feel it back.
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  Speaker 4: We we so we got it. That the numbers are down,
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  Speaker 4: We got it that we're back on the subway system
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  Speaker 4: post COVID. But when we see this is what the
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  Speaker 4: public is saying, When we see the visible presence of
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  Speaker 4: a uniform officer, we feel safer. Now, you may say, Eric,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to see a visible president of a
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  Speaker 4: uniform officers, and that's cool, but that's not what the
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  Speaker 4: overwhelming number of New Yorkers are saying.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm saying to you. The New York City Comptroller
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  Speaker 7: Bradlander recently put out a report finding that fifty percent
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  Speaker 7: of the city is disappointed and does not feel safe
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  Speaker 7: based on your rhetoric about the subways and your over
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  Speaker 7: police presence.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, since first of all, that's not what this says
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  Speaker 1: based on Eric's rhetoric, that's.
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  Speaker 7: Not you kids, No, no, no, no. Did they say
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  Speaker 7: based on Eric's you want to talk about based on
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  Speaker 7: your specific system, going back.
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  Speaker 1: To what you said, because you attorney, they have fact,
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  Speaker 1: they say.
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  Speaker 7: Based they have the city is there are they have
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  Speaker 7: multiple reports in New York Times. The Gothamins, the city
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  Speaker 7: controller and the federal monitor who reports, who reports, who's
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  Speaker 7: tasked with making sure the NYPD and wrikers are in
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  Speaker 7: compliance with the law, have both submitted reports saying that
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  Speaker 7: since you became there's been a return of stopping for us,
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  Speaker 7: that there have been over fifteen thousand stops, ninety seven
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  Speaker 7: percent of whom have been on black and Hispanic people.
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  Speaker 7: A fourth of those stops and searches have been unconstitutional
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  Speaker 7: and they've yielded very few results.
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  Speaker 1: Let's peel it back.
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  Speaker 4: Eric Adams, one hundred blacks and law enforcement testified in
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  Speaker 4: federal court that the federal court judge stated, based on
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  Speaker 4: Eric's testify testimony, we are going to rule against the
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  Speaker 4: police department. We were dealing with a million stops a
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  Speaker 4: year when I was with one hundred blacks and law
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  Speaker 4: force fere My advocacy is what turned it around from
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  Speaker 4: that million stops a year. Look at the numbers right
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  Speaker 4: right now. My advocacy and showing how to do policing correctly,
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  Speaker 4: because it's not that you want to eradicate proper police practices.
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  Speaker 1: You must make sure they do them right.
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  Speaker 4: And that is what I have been able to accomplish
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  Speaker 4: in the city, taking over thirteen thousand guns off the
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  Speaker 4: streets of the City.
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  Speaker 1: Of New York, who the victims of black and brown people.
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  Speaker 4: When I go to community meetings and talk to community
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  Speaker 4: any residents, they don't tell me, Eric, we don't want
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  Speaker 4: want police, they said, Eric, we want our police doing
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  Speaker 4: their jobs correctly.
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  Speaker 1: And that is what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 7: The Federal Manitor, the Federal monitor who was tasked with
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  Speaker 7: ensuring that NYPD is following the law, conducted conducted an analysis,
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  Speaker 7: conducted an analysis that having eight years ago, but they're
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  Speaker 7: still hair monitoring what you're doing. And they said that
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  Speaker 7: you have brought back stopping first policies that are worse
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  Speaker 7: than they saw even doing the Bloomberg era. But More importantly,
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  Speaker 7: they analyzed the neighborhood. I could show the report is available,
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  Speaker 7: and I know it's been available to you because your
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  Speaker 7: spokesperson is commented on it. They did an analysis of
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  Speaker 7: over ten percent ten different precincts. There is factual there's
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  Speaker 7: a federal monitor reporting to judged. He swain on it
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  Speaker 7: and present. They said that, yes, listen, let me finish
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  Speaker 7: so you can feel it back. They conducted an analysis
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  Speaker 7: of ten different precincts, and every of the stops of
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  Speaker 7: ten different precincts, they found that ninety seven percent of them,
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  Speaker 7: by the way of the neighborhood safety teams that were
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  Speaker 7: disbanded in twenty twenty because of their disproportionate abuse against
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  Speaker 7: black and Hispanic people that you revived. They analyzed ten
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  Speaker 7: of those different neighborhood safety teams and found that they're
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  Speaker 7: conductings ninety seven percent of their stops on black and
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  Speaker 7: brown people, and a quarter of them are on constitutional
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  Speaker 7: That's what the federal monitor said, not me.
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  Speaker 4: And at the same time, let's let's be clear on
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  Speaker 4: this because what you're what you're given the perception of
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  Speaker 4: this is a federal monitor that came in long before
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  Speaker 4: I was mayor agree.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Number two, I have been the mayor for two years
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  Speaker 4: and three months. We've had a tradition of over policing
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  Speaker 4: for generations, and that's now that you're there, that I
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  Speaker 4: fought for. We had issues of over policing for generations
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  Speaker 4: that I fought for.
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  Speaker 1: We acknowledge what my history is in this place. So
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  Speaker 1: two years in.
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  Speaker 4: Three months, we are turning around not only over policing,
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  Speaker 4: but we're turning around the crime.
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  Speaker 1: Because when I came to this city, we had a forty.
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  Speaker 4: Increase in crime, and most of that crime black and
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  Speaker 4: brown communities.
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  Speaker 7: You became mayor after are a global pandemic in which
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  Speaker 7: there was record unemployment, business laws, homelessness. And you're not
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  Speaker 7: drawing that connection. You're making no, no, But what I'm
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  Speaker 7: saying is crime has a crime is connected to what
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  Speaker 7: is happening in the city and the experiences of people.
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  Speaker 7: This is the most expensive city in the world. We
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  Speaker 7: had a global pandemic where business is closed of work.
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  Speaker 7: So if you saw time, it was connected to that,
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  Speaker 7: but also jobs come on. Also, you're saying that you've
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  Speaker 7: turned it around and yb the's abuses, But just last
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  Speaker 7: year we paid out one hundred and fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 7: in settling police misconducts from and I was double the number.
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  Speaker 7: That's double the number and police misconduct since you became married.
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  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 4: I noticed something. I noticed how much passion and commitments
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  Speaker 4: you have.
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  Speaker 5: It's one of your constituents.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm one of my constituents STUDENTWS. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And I grew up in this city.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: I noticed, And this is what I hear often of
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  Speaker 4: those who articulate when a person in the blue uniform
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  Speaker 4: commits an inappropriate act, balance that with what we're doing
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  Speaker 4: to take the violence out of our commutes. Because I
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  Speaker 4: know what I hear when I go to these community meetings.
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  Speaker 4: I know what I hear when I go speak to
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  Speaker 4: these mothers who lost their children to violence.
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  Speaker 1: I know what I hear. You're not even talking about
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  Speaker 1: that at all.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I was a public defender.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what you said. That's what you said.
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  Speaker 7: And my original question was about how you relate to that.
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  Speaker 4: You said that New Yorkers don't feel safe. So there
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  Speaker 4: was a poe that came out with last week. Yeah, right, right,
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  Speaker 4: And in that poll that came out by the CBC.
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  Speaker 4: It stated that the priorities of Mayor Adams is moving
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  Speaker 4: the city in the right direction. My priority now, remember
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  Speaker 4: two years, three months, brother, two years three months.
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  Speaker 1: I inherited a pandemic.
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  Speaker 4: I inherited one hundred and eighty thousand micros and asylum
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  Speaker 4: seekers that can't work, that we have to house them
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  Speaker 4: every day. I inherit You called for a lot of
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  Speaker 4: them too, though no we didn't brother it was a
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  Speaker 4: sanctuary city.
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  Speaker 1: You told them, okay, let's let's see.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I say, that's why it's important to have
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  Speaker 4: this conversation because sanctuary city and the micasine asylum seekers
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  Speaker 4: are two different issues. Sanctuvy City, if you're undocumented, we
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  Speaker 4: can't turn you over to Ice or authority. Micaels and
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  Speaker 4: asylum seekers were parolled into here. They here legally, they
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  Speaker 4: were parolled into. But what the federal government did and
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  Speaker 4: Governor Abbot did, they said, we're gonna send them up
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  Speaker 4: to Chicago, New York, Boston. And the federal government is saying, Eric,
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  Speaker 4: you can't allow them to work. You gotta give them housing.
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  Speaker 4: You can't stop the buses from coming in, you cannot
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  Speaker 4: turn them over to Ice.
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  Speaker 1: All of that is illegal. If I do that, were
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: breaking law.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: So when people look at the Migaans that are here,
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: we didn't call people to come here. They were sent
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: here by Governor Abbot, and the failure to secure our
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: borders is allowing us to continue. And we're not getting
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: any funny, any money from We got about one hundred
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: million dollars out of a four billion dollar price tag.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: Look at Chicago right now. Look what's happened in Chicago
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: right now? My brother Mayor Johnson over there, what's happening
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: with him? Look has happened in Boston. Look what's happening
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: in Houston, Los Angeles. And then do a comparative analysis
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: of what's happening on our streets here. Wow, we dealt
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: with that crisis, turn around our economy, outpacent the state
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: and reading.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: The math of our young people.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: I've been on Rykers Island more than any mayor in
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: the history of the city, talking with inmates and correction
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: officers to turn around what's happening.
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: In twenty twenty two, and there were three deaths back
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: to Bath because corrections officers left their posts and allowed
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: it to happen. You went to Rikers to express your
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: support for the corrections officer to Rikers what I do
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: want you to do, Adam.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: But you keep you keep giving out misinformation. I was
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: on Rikers Island this week. This week with a group
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: of twelve young brothers who recommitted themselves to Christ. I
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: went to see them in the morning.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: We prayed together because they.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Said, this is not the first time you've been here.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: You've been here over and over, visiting us, talking to us,
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: nurturing us. You know, because I know what it's like
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: to be locked up because I was locked up as
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: a child, So I know what it's like to be
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: treated unfairly because I'm dyslexic. When you're doing analysis of
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: the number of young brothers and sisters who are in
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Rikers are in jail, they're dealing with learning disabilities because
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: it was never given to the support that they have. That's
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: why I have dyslexia screening, so we could catch people
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: who are thrown overboard before they get thrown overboard. So
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: we have a philosophical disagreement.
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: No, I do, like I'm glad feelings towards.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Your feelings towards police is different from this.
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: Is not about my feelings that this is about the
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: actual statistics that I presented from the federal monitoring about
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: her statistics. He's a federal monitor. Do you are you
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: disputing with the federal monitor and the actual and the.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Controller talking about this moment control of brad Lander. Okay, please,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: but we're gonna throw people in names on who we
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: are are independent sources.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: He should not be one of them. Think about this
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: federal monitor, the.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: One that was independently elected by the people.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Of New York.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: But I was independent elected also and he and I'm
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: addressing you, so think about this for my moment. The
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: federal monitor wants to take over Rykers. Okay, Rykers has
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: been dysfunctional for generations. I came in decreased violence, putting
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: real incentive programs for young people there. But I didn't
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: do it from a distance. I went to Rikers and
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: walked the halls and talk with inmates. We're doing workshops
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: and support groups with inmates and find out.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: What do you need to be here.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: We instituted real turnaround programs there with the sisters that's
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: now in the correction officer. I mean that's the Commission
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: of Corrections there. So I didn't do like other mayors.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I didn't sit back and say, let me just turn
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: my back on what's rikers. I said to those Rikers
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: inmates when I got elected, I'm coming here. I'm going
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: to see what you're going through, and I want to make
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: sure you leave here better than how you got here
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: in the first place. And we started instituting programs to
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: do so. So that same federal monitor go look at
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: the federal prisons. You that federal monitor wanted to take
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: over our prisons after I had it only two years
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: in three months.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: No, they wanted to take over my first year.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Although crime was going violence was going, violence was going down,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: and people say, well, ever, you know people are people
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: are dying on rykers.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Look at how they died.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: People are coming into rykers and terrible medical conditions.
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: And not getting their medical appointments.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: It's not that they were dying because correction officers were
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: killing them. People were coming in with heart problems, but
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: overdosing on drugs.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: When people a right to feel that, because I know
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I got people that are in Rikers right now serving
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: time and.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: They hate it. They think it's discussion.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Is they're trying to who like sales brother, who.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: Likes respectfully, Mary Adams, fundamentally, the things that you were
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: saying is untrue. You actually cut seventeen million dollars of
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: are used for classes for people at Rikos Rykers to
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: re enter society.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Those were cut in the programs.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: Those were cut under your those were cut on your administration.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: We were spending millions of dollars.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: Thirty one people have died at Rikers since Eric Adams
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: mayor millions.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Of dollars for these professional folks to do these programs,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: reinjury programs, millions of dollars, seven people sitting inside the class.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: When I came into office, I said, why are we
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: spending so much money on programs but our people are
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: still in these bad conditions. People have profetized poverty. That
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: making so much money off of black and brown people
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: because it's a lucrative business to come up with all
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: these different programs, all these different ways.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And then when you go to them.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: And say, let me say the results of the programs
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: that we're paying you millions of dollars for, and then
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: you look and see what who's in charge of these programs,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: they don't look like us.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: Moments ago you said you instituted programs and when I
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: brought up the fact that you actually cut programs now
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: your anti program, Okay, thirty one at least at least
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: thirty one people have died at Wrikers since you became mayor.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: That's why I'm for no more program. Fatherless No More.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: This was the This was the brother the pastor. Fatherless
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: No More is called the program, and I would encourage
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: you to come and check it out. This brother here,
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: instead of saying, pay me millions of dollars to do
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: a program to turn around the lives of our young
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: brothers in Rankers, he doesn't want money. He's committed to
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: the cause. But you have these professional programs that were
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: in place.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: And when I went to them and.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Say, show me the results of what you've done in
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: these programs. Show me what we produce for our millions
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: of dollars as in many of these programs in the
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: city that I'm saying, we're no longer paying y'all.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: To just play us year after year.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: So Fatherless No More is turning around the lives of
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: people not being paid millions of dollars for it. If
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: we're really true to what we said we want to do,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: why do we have to pay your millions of dollars
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: to do it. You know, why don't you come on
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: rankers like I do and volunteer. Why don't you come
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: in and really be committed, Because people are not committed
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: to us. Brother, They've been playing us. You know, this
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: is a street hustle that have been going on for years,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: and people have eaten off of the dysfunctionality of watching
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: us stay in these permanent states of being.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: A lot of people are upset to it.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: They feel like the prison reform is bad for New
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: York City. They're saying people do crimes, they get out immediately,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and then they commit the crimes.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: We just see an.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Officer that passed away a couple of days ago, rest
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: in peace to him and always healing energy to his family.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: But they say that individual was arrested for a gun
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: and has a record the size of we don't know what,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And they're saying that people are doing crimes and they're
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: getting back out. Officers don't want to arrest people. A
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: lot of officers don't even want to be officers anymore because
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: the people that they' arresting get out so fast.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: So what do you say to that?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And brother, let me tell you something. I say this
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: term all the time.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Idealism collides with realism, this far leftist mindset that believes
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: we should not have a criminal justice system in place,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: We're gonna look like some of these other cities that
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: you're seeing with a lack of a criminal justice system
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: in place. We're losing correction offices. We're losing district attorneys,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: we're losing police officers, we're losing probation offices, we're losing
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: school safety agents. Every piece of our public safety apparatus
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: that the every day working class person wants, we're seeing
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: it all of a sudden erode, and we're going to
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: lose the foundation of our prosperity, and that's public safety.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: So when you look at these cases, we have three.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Problems in this city that if you dig into it,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: you'll see how they continue to intersection between each other.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: We have one, we have a Recipi thiss problem. It's
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: a revolving door. Thirty eight people that assaulted transit workers
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: well were arrested eleven hundred times. Five hundred and forty
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: five people that were arrested for shoplifting were arrested seventy
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: five seven thousand, five hundred times.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: The person who.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Shot that police officer, his driver was just arrested for
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: having a gun in April of last year. Now he's
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: back doing the same thing all over again. These guys
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: are arrested ten fifteen times. It's a small population of
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: people that are repeated offenders.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: The second problem that we have in.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: The city is a severe mental health I'm not talking
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: about just somebody that's the pressed, someone that's going through
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: a bad day.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about a severe mental health problem.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Go look at these cases of assaulting passengers, pushing people
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: on the subway track, the cat that pushed the person
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: on the subway tract the other day, in and out
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: of the system.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And so when I came.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Into office, I said, we can't keep just walking by
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: these people that are dealing with severe mental health issues.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: We need to give them wrapping around services and care.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: The far left pushed against me, You're in humane, you
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: just want to take people off the streets. No, I said, no,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: in this city, people are not gonna live. People are
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: not gonna live in encampments. They're gonna live in tents.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Go look at Los Angeles, Go look at Oregon, Go
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: look at all these other cities. When you see tent
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: city San Francisco, you see tent cities people. When I
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: went out in January February, when I got elected in
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, I went out without my security team
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: and started visiting people in intents and encampments and started
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: talking to them bipolar, schizophrenic, human waste, drug power, fernalia,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: stale food.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: They didn't even realize they were in that state. One
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: cat was an.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Ex police officer that I spoke with, didn't even realize
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: started seeing and talking to himself. I said, I'm not
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: going to do this. My city is not going to
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: be like San Francisco. It's not going to be like
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: these other cities where you're watching people living on streets
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: in tens intents. You don't see that in New York City.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Third problem we have is random, random acts of violence.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Those random acts of violence are being highlighted.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: If you have if you.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Have twenty four hours in a day, and something that
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: happens to you in an hour and the day you
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: set to define yourself as that entire day. Those random
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: acts of violence are plastered on social media. They're plastic,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: They're plastered on everything. People begin to believe that Oh,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: I'm living in the city that's out of control.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: We are not.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: She made good people New York.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: If NYPD is reposting that kind of stuff, what are
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: we supposed to think.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: A phone brother, No, No, this recently been there somuch
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: so that they're arguing with journalists on there's IPD on
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: their own Twitter pages that are posting and sensationalizing crime.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: And I said this at the beginning. You said that
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: there's a difference between perception and reality, how people feel
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: afraid versus how safe New York actually is. And I
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: agree with you, but I said that it's your own
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: rhetoric and NYPD's rhetoric that plays into that, and you
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: did it just now. Because the reality is a condition
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: of release for everybody for every crime, whether it be
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: non bail eligible or bail eligible, is that if you
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: commit a crime and you're rearrested, that you that you
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: bail can and will be set on you. So that's
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: the first thing. Second of all, they have conducted multiple studies,
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: but the Brendans that are literally just put out one
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: less than two percent of anybody in New York City
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: that's released on bail is re arrested for any violent crime.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: More importantly, in the same in the same breath that
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: we want in the same breath that you want to sensationalize,
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: we want to highlight and point out, Oh, an officer
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: was killed the other day, which is a rare occurrence
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: across the United States, but let alone in New York.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: New York police officers have killed at least seven people
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: this year, including a nineteen year old officer kill.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to dismiss the loss of the life
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: of an innocent person that weighs a uniform you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: Of the people, and the nineteen year old.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: I feel like I don't want to take you out
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: of contents, and I do want people to all of
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: a sudden criticize that you're being dismissive.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Of a.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: It's not going to work on me.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to broak anything on you. I lost
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: a member of the police department. The same way I
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: go to see the mother of eleven year old baby
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: that was eleven month old baby that was shot in
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: the head. When I first became man, I sat in
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: the hospital with her.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: The same way I.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Go visit these mothers who lose their children to gun violence.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I go see them just as I go, just as
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I go to see the family member of a slain
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: police officer, I go visit those parents that lose their.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: Loved visiting the family that first of all, yesterday and
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: I held a writer, I represented her.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: You went to visit You went to visit the family
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: members of a slain officer.
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: Not the slain officer, of course, But what about the
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: nineteen year old that was killed yesterday by NYPD and
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: Queen's when he called for help? Have you said anything
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: about that? Are you visiting them?
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: The first of all, that's New York safer or not.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, it is New York safer or not.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Okay, we just showed the graph that we that we
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: put up. Right, there's there's a graph that shows how
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: many people murders based one hundred thousand people. It shows
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: a graph each city the large cities in America. New
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: York is the least. New York is the safest big
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: city in America.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Should we say crime is down or should we say
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: it's safe? Because I think it's crime. Saying something is
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: safe insane?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Well, random and.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: Thirty pounds and I lose thirty I'm still.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Fat, right, you know?
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: But random acts, And that's why, that's why, what what
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: I must do with New York is is give them
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: the facts, not give them what people are spewing out there.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: The facts facts are clear.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: As I've always stated, we are the safest big city
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: in America. And as people talk about reporting these the
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: reports that come out and reporting how things are done,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: no one wants to report the fact that everyone is
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: saying across the globe New York is the safest big
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: city in America?
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: Are we trend in the right way?
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: I think the New York I don't dispute the New
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: York is safe. What I dispute is how Mayor adams
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: own rhetoric is the reason why people don't feel safe.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: I would reread that New York Is don't feel safe
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: because of the way the NYPD, the Post, and Mayor
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: Adams go about sensationalizing prime. And I'm acting you to
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: talk about it differently and listen.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: And you have a right to your opinion and your belief.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: We you and not have a philosophical disagreement you.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: That's many. It's not many people on the fall left
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: disagree with me.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: You know, many people on the far left, they said, Eric,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: people should be allowed to sleep on the streets no
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: matter what. They should be allowed to sit on your
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: stoop and inject themselves with drugs. They should be allowed
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: to go in stores and still whatever they want. They
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: shouldn't have to pay on the subway system. They should
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: be allowed to carry a gun and be able to
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: come out the next day.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: Like people disagree with earlier rhetoric. Earlier you asked me
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: to point out specifically what you say. It's a fair
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: mongrel about So I just would like to say exhibit
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: a like what you literally just did. You continue to
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: say in this that New York is the safest big
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: city while simultaneously you are the one sensationalizing rights, which.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Is a max.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: All I know is when I came in office and
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I stated that I wanted to take I'm not allowing
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: people to sleep in tents on our streets.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: They're gonna get the care that they deserve.
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: The far left attack, No, you made it so that
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: people could be involuntarily committed people.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, listen, if I'm sitting down with you, brother, and
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: I'm in a tent with you on encampment and I'm
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: seeing human waste in the corner, I'm seeing stale food,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I'm seeing drug power f nail, and I'm hearing you
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: talking about you only hear until the spaceship comes to
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: take you to your next planet.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: You need to be involuntary committed.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Didn't I just say about sensational going to happen?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: This is what I saw. This is what I saw.
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: Aund because the activists that were actually there at the
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: encampments you were torn down. You weren't there, but they
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: were there when they were being arrested.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: People are also upset that they feel like too much
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: money is going to my rents, and you're cutting too
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: many programs right, They're saying you're cutting the PREKI. They're
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: saying that you're cutting so many different funding.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: For the people of this question. Brother.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: So people people are saying, people are feeling like, you know,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: they never have money for us, but when as soon
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: as migrants come in the country, they find money.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: And listen, people have a right to be angry. You
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: know who's even more angry than they are.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I am.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: I've been to Washington ten times, ten times to talk
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: about this subject. So people got a right to be
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: pissed off of what they're doing.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: To New York.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Can we finish that where these like I mean, we cut.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: A lot of product.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: One day's kids couldn't go to school because migrants to
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: go over to school.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Now that's not that wasn't that wasn't accurate. Okay, let's
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: let's let's let's let's first, let's deal with that. We
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: always utilize our school buildings during the time of crisis.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: And if we're saying to ourselves, if there's some amazing
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: when we had to major fire when I first became
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: mayor and we saw that fire in the Bronx, you know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: we had to take a school to take care of
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: those people who lived in the building. Temporarily, when we
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: have major storms, we take us school to use. The
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: temporary schools is part of the resources of the city.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: And thank god we had something called remote learning where
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: people still let young people are still able to go
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: on to learn. But we can't say we can't say
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: we can't say that we will use a school building
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: during an emergency, but we're not going to do it
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: for children that are migrants.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: And assimum seecrets in public learning and remote worth. Here's
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: here's the.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Here are the things that are crucial about the migrant
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Asimum secrets that we need to We need to put
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: the rest that people don't realize. Number One, I don't
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: have the legal authority to stop the buses from coming in.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: That's against law. I don't have the authority to allow
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: them to work, which they want to do.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: That's against the law. I don't have the authority.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: To say I'm not going to house you and give
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: you three meals a day.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: It's against the law for me do it.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: I don't have the authority to deport someone that commits
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: a crime here in this city and turn them over
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: the ice. That's against the law. So what we had
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: to do was figure out how do we house people?
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: And so some people say, whatever you're giving them morning,
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: what you've given us. Go to the Hurk centers where
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: they are the shelters, the restrooms are outside, the showers
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: are outside. They're sleeping on cots. They get three basic
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: meals a day. And when I go visit them, they said,
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: we don't want any of this from you. All we
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: want to do is have the right to work so
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: we can provide for ourselves.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: And less than thirty days.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Migrants won't be allowed to work for federal guidelines, and
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: they won't be allowed to be housed in nyc ano
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: y any wants the where would they go after that?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: They finding a way out.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Of the one hundred and eighty four thousand, sixty percent
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: of them found their way like many of us have done.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: You notice you don't hear about them the way.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: They're gonna get housing in thirty days, though.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Many of them, we're giving them intense care.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: We're not just telling you come here, hang out for
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: thirty days, and we're not gonna help you know, in.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Those thirty days, and if you're a young person, you
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: get sixty days.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: But in those thirty days or sixty days, we're giving
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: you intense care. We're showing you how to find your
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: way in our city. We're showing you how to go
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: about applying for housing, to go about applying for the
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: services that you need. And some people are saying, we
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: never wanted to come to New York at all. We
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: wanted to come to another city, but Governor I said, no,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: We're sending you to New York. Think about this for
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: a moment. We got thousands of Ukrainian migrants, thousands.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Do you hear about them?
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: No work, just Mexican and Africans.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Can you take a work?
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: They have the right to work, so so we wouldn't
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: even be having this conversation if we gave them the
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: authority to work.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Ain't know the real irony of this.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: We need workers, I need lifeguards, I need food service workers.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Many of these micros from violence Venezuela are nurses and
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: other professionals. I need people to backstretch workers. Other states
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: are telling me Eric, we will take the micrants and
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: asylum seekers if they just allowed them to work. We're
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: not gonna take them and just have them sit around
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: every day. If they allowed to work, we would take them.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: They're national government.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: She agreed with a lot of stuff.
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: No, I trust you that I she's on that train.
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: I'm sitting here, may Adam, He's going to be First
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: of all, I ride the subway every day. I've worked
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: as a public defender in this city and represented thousands
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: of people.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Do you think more police make people feel safe, especially
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: black and brown?
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: No, they don't know black and brown people.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, brother, I god, I go to I just had
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: a town hall. I just had a town hall yesterday.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: All these black and brown folks inside that town hall.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Number one issue they came up. We want to feel safer.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: We want more cops.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: Want people want to feel safe. It doesn't mean they
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: want more cops. And if they did, New York City
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: as the most police in the country, want to be
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: the largest police department in the country. How many want police?
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: Do you want?
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: May Adams go do an analysis across the city and
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: communities of color and ask them, do you want us
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: to take your police away? Or do you want more police?
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I guarantee you you would be lost to find someone.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: When you had resources to that list. Do you want
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: your resources to get the root of these this sho
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: That's what.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: People think about resources we've done. Think about check out
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: what we've done. Check out what we've done. Advocates the
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: far left, they have been calling for of summer youth
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: employment for years. We gave them a hundred thousand never
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: been done before in history. Never They've been calling for
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: investment in Nicha. We putting Nischa as our top program.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: When I was doing during COVID, I was knocking on
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: doors handling our mask to night your residents because the
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: city refused to do so, and people were saying, why
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: are you giving masks of those people? When I was
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: knock on the doors. I would ask the residents, how
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: are your children doing the school? They said, Eric, we
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: don't even have high speed broadband. I said, when I
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: get elected, we're gonna change that. Now nights your residents
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: all have free high speed broadbands so they children can
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: have access like other children. We're doing the Nights of
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Land Trust. No one was able to do it. We
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: put more people in affordable housing using the Value Your
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: system than the history of the program. We've transitioned more
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: people out of shelter into housing in the in one.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Year in the history of the city.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: When I went to do an analysis with all of
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: my gang members and I asked them the question, you know,
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: how many of you haven't learned disabilities? How many of
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: your dyslexic?
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: All of your gang?
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: That's what characterizing with people who you are you with
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: the gang, No, I mean regularly with people who you
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: met up with some drug dealers at Burger came.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you broughte that up. Oh, let me just
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: finish this one piece, because this is important.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: We noticed when we did the analysis across the country,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: not only in New York, across the country, thirty to
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: forty of the inmates in jail and in prison have
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: a learning disability.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: So when I sat down, I went the chances.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: I said, listen, we can't wait until people thank you,
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: until people break the law.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: We did dyslexure.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Screening in our schools and we were able to now
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: catch and give them the wrap around services they need.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: So I want to talk about Burger King. So I'm
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: sitting at home and I look at the paper. They
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: say there's drug dealers selling drugs and for the Burger King.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: So I call up the priests and commander and I said,
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: what is this man? We're not having open drug markets,
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: he says, He says, Maya. We did a complete operation
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: buying bus went to see you know what drugs are
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: they selling?
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Who's selling drugs? He said, these guys are not selling drugs.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: These guys are homeless and they just come to feel
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: as though they could be around others. So when I
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: went on Sunday, I went down and did what other
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: people don't do.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I spoke with them.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: I said, brothers, can we sit down and talk. Let
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: me find out how you know what's going on in
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: your life. We sat in Burger King, had a conversation
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: shop brothers.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: They weren't even drug dealing.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: No, okay, they were not drug dealers.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: They were just homeless brothers that just wanted to be
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: a place where people they.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Could communicate among others like.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: Other folks do when people have dog parks and people
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: sit on the steps of a museum.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: And so we sat there and.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Had a conversation and we were able to identify what
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: services and what I learned from them. You could have
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: all the services you want, but if people don't know
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: the entry remp to those services, then what good is it.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: So now we're going to devise the program that they're
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: gonna help me devise on how to reach out to
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: those services. Then I want those brothers to become recruiters
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: to go inside the shelters. But you're not gonna do
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: that if you are afraid to get on the ground
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: and have these one on one conversations. I've been here, man,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: you know. I know what it is to buy a
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: nickel bag and make a joints so mommy can feed herself.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I know what it is to run numbers. I know
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: what those should do. All those things. So I'm comfortable
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: among my folks.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: And the problem that a lot of people don't understand
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: is they don't know how authentic I am about this work.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: But they're gonna look back over it and said, we
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: had a mayor that came from us and delivered for us.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Even the billions of dollars that I'm putting into mwbe's
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: that we've never had before. People gonna look back over
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: these years and say, this brother was real about what
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: he's doing.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Because that's why I'm doing this.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Your people were rapping about. I have two more questions.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: How do debit cards.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: For migrants compare to New city welfare benefits.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: I like that that's a good question because that was
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: one of the biggest myths. And I think the daily
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: news you see the piece today of saying why this
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: makes sense.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: So here's what happened. We were paying.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: People because we by lawd we got to feed them
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: three meals a day.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: We got to feed the migrants three meals a day.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: When I told the team we spent we got to
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: bring down the cost of this by thirty percent because
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: it was costing us too much money twelve billion dollars
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: over three years, four billion dollars.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Already.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: One of the places was food. We were seeing that
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: we were having a ten percent food waste. People were
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: getting food that didn't want and he just card it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: So my team came together First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: first black.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Woman to be a first deputy man.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: She came up with a team called Multifi, a MWe
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: black roduct. They said that we can give people food
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: cards where they can only purchase food and baby supplies.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: You would save.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Six hundred thousand dollars a month. In course, people would
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: buy the food that they want and not giving it to.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Them from someone from some large conglamorate.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Then they will have to spend the cards in the bodegas,
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: the supermarkets, the local stores.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: So the money stays inside.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: The community and the program is run by a person
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: of a person of color. With saving over seven million
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: dollars a year, where no more food waste, could people
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: a buying what they want. It's a black owned company,
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: so we put money back into a black businesses like
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: I said I was going to do, and you cannot
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: buy anything but food or baby supplies. It's a complete win.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: But people heard it and it was sensationalized. Oh you're
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: giving money to Mike. They only get thirteen dollars a
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: day for them three meals.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: It's a winning program.
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: It's not that I have a problem it said again,
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: the sensationalism has a lot to do with the fact
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: that you got up and declared that we have this
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: migrant crisis. And I thought it was interesting your earlier
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: point about the difference between how Ukrainian migrants are being
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: received versus migrants Black and Latino migrants, because again, you
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: gave a town hall where you were the one who
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: gave this speech and incent like you incentivized New Yorkers
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: to feel this way, feel which way, Just feel like
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: there is a migrant crisis where the migrants are being
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: treated differently than them, where they're getting resources, that the
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: migrants are getting resources that are not being given to them,
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: because you were the one who presented it to the
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: city that you had to cut budgets across because of
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: the migrant crisis, even though recently you decided that you
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: all actually do have the money to handle the migrant issue,
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: that just wasn't publicized as much. So this goes back
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: to my originals discussion.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: So you an attorney and you I'm amazed, I think
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: your art is I'm just going to throw it out
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: there and make people.
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: Finish before you say there's an entire council, council that
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: knows your left.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, let me let me. We still don't have
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: the money for the migrants. We spent it.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: Twelve billion dollars in three years, all billion dollars already.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: What I said to New York is at that town hall,
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: this issue will bankrupt will destroy our city.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: This issue.
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: You called specific countries. I remember you calling the countries.
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: They weren't any I migrants. You weren't talking about them.
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: So what happens when.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: We don't have sister, I did not call the countries
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: what they were front from.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: I went to the video, I went to Mary Adam.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: I went to Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico to get a full
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: understanding of the flow. I went to the southern border,
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: just as I went to those brothers in Burker King,
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: I went to the southern border to understand the problem.
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: I remember you started that tour before you were going
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: to go to go d C. And when you were
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: going to go to d C to Biden to talk
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: to Joe Biden about the migrant crisis. But you were
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: stopped because they had the FBI had to take your phones.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Could lords you just make up stuff and.
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: Didn't make that up? That's reported that I didn't see
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: your phone. Yeah, I didn't see your phones. No, they
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: didn't investigate. That's not happening.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: What did you just say?
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: You?
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: I said, I remember that you went on when you
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: were going to the border, when you when I come back.
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: I came back because somebody had to take because it stopped.
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: I said, I remember on the day up, I remember
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: it because you got you got amnesia and the media.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: This is this is important, This is important. I want
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: you to understand. I want you to understand the hypocrisy
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: of people. When the law enforcement does something every day,
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: it's bad.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: But when they do something against Eric Adams, Oh it's good.
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: I said, what happened. I didn't say that it was good.
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: I don't think I get for a legal campaigns.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's I came back because of not
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: that they had to take my phones.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: That is that is not true.
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: And you I said it happened that day.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: No, it did not happen that day.
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: I said, it was reported before you were going where
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: your phone? Did they search your tompa day? Did they
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: search the home of some for several people. Okay, yes,
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: that's what I said. And I didn't say that was
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: a good thing. I don't think it's good that.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: So what happens when New York City doesn't have the
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: money for migrants and then you know the migrants are
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: in this city and they probably have to do what
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: most poor people have to do, which is sometimes resort
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: the crime.
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: How is that gonna make the city say?
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Right? And that's and that's part of the problem.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Imagine having a group of people eighteen to twenty four
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: years old, and it's being told you can't do anything
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: all day when you go when you go to these
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: hurks and you're seeing these young people, and I walk
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: in and I talk with them, some of them coming
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: from West Africa, South America, Central America. All they saying is, man,
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  Speaker 4: we just want to work. We don't want to sit
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  Speaker 4: around here all day and not do anything. That is
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: why the real focus should be on our national government.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: That's saying, why you're doing this to New York While
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: you check out what they're doing. They're doing it to
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: New York, They're doing it to Chicago, they're doing it
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  Speaker 4: to Los Angeles, they're doing it to Houston. What is
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: the same in all those cities, all black mans, all
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  Speaker 4: black mens. And so we're saying same thing that I'm
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: going through here. My brother Johnson is going through, my
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  Speaker 4: sister Bass is going through, my brother Turner is going through.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: So our folks are what they wanted to happen, Governor
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Appy wanted to happen.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna turn these of cities against their mayors.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna create this environment where they're all going to
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: go against their mayors. Go google what they doing to
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: my brother in Chicago, Go google what they doing to
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: sister Bass. So the cities have now turned against these
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: black mayors that are making real change for the first time.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: And and they're using this to say, Okay, these black
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: mans are not competent. They can't run their cities. They're
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: getting everything to the miners and asimum seekers. This was
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: a perfectly executed plan that we are buying into mans
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: look better exactly, and when when we're doing just the opposite,
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: we we.
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  Speaker 1: I inherited a city that was in this array.
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  Speaker 4: This array, you know, and no matter how much you
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: do your analysis, you gotta walk away with this. Brother
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  Speaker 4: got more private sector jobs in the history of the city.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: We reached that point, this brother had his bond rated
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  Speaker 4: increased forty percent, increasing crime, and I came in with now,
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: drop those crimes, thirteen thousand guns. We moved off our city,
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: outpacing the state and reading and writing for our children
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: in the public school school system. Sixty two million tourists
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: are back here. More housing vouchers. You go down the list,
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: invest in Nintu. You go down the list. You're seeing
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: a brother that managed the city that people said was unmanageable, and.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: We did it in two years, in three months.
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  Speaker 5: It's my last question.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: Do you believe the Biden administration's border policies have fueled
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: the worst border crisis in US history?
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: In New York you said New York history, or in
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: American American history New York. I think it definitely impacts us,
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: But I think it's an accumulation of what the White
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: House is failing to do, and the Republican led Congresses
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: failing to do, and other administrations. People don't want to
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: deal with the fact that we need real immigration reform. Now,
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: let me tell you what this shit looked like. Do
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: you know right here in our country where we are
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: decreasing in population in many cities. We're hurting for people
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: in many cities. When people come across the border, the
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: national government to say, you're gonna go to this city
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: where we need populations, stay there for three years, and
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: then you could go anywhere you want in the country.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: We need to use this crisis as an opportunity. Our
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: cities are hurting. In Kentucky, they're hurting for backstretch workers
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: in the racing industry. We should be saying you want
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: to come here, You're gonna go to Kentucky. You're gonna
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: say for three years, you're gonna learn how to be
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: in the country and work. That's how we should do
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: it instead of just saying go whatever you want and
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: allowing this to be politicized by the by the governor
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: of Texas and saying we're gonna now, we're gonna hurt Chicago,
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: hurt New York, hurt Los Angeles, hurt Philadelphia. We just
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: got a sister who's there, was the elected. The day
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: she was being sworn in, a plane of migaans was
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: coming there. None was coming before. No, no Michaels was
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: going to Los Angeles until Bass became mayor. When I
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: when I'm when in the first female black man became mayor,
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: when she became here, they said, let's start sending them,
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: sending them to Los Angeles. They playing us, man, they
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: playing us.
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  Speaker 3: You know that I respect any elected official who can
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: come have this conversation.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, because these are the tough questions.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, without a doubt, without doubt.
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: You know what can y'all do to work together?
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: We should? You're you're because no matter, both don't care. Yeah,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: without a doubt.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: You know what's not an interesting You said that because
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: when I was when I was in you know, I'm
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: in rooms with folks, and I walk out of those
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: rooms and I said, you know what.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: We both disagreed, but we both loved the city and
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: love our people.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: We have to separate the ten percent of disagreement and
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: focus on the ninety percent that we agree with.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: You agree that our children should be educated. Agree read
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: that those brothers when they give.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: But sisters when they get out of reichers, should come
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: out better than what they went in.
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  Speaker 1: You agree that we should be saved.
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  Speaker 4: You agree that no mother should have to lose their
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: child to over policing or to someone who is discharging
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: the gun. We agree on many things. The tempercent that
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: we don't agree on, then listen, let's debate that. But
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: this ninety percent of the stuff we agree that black
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: women should be able to go through their school system
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: and get into some of these employments like first man
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: in history that have five women, Deputy mayor, first man
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: in history Dominican, Filipino, African American, Trinidadian.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: You know, first man history that has a person of color.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: That's the police commissioner, correction commissioner, first man history that
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: have done so many things. I know retrospectfully, I'm gonna
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: be appreciated as a mayor that lived up to what
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: I said I was going to do.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that now.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: You know, people always crap on the when we in
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: the ring, but when my when my gloves are hung up,
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: people gonna look at Listen, that was an authentic, ball headed,
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: earring wearing brother that did his thing as the mayor
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: of the City of New York, the most important city
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: on the globe is being run by a person who
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: is dyslexic, arrested, rejected.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: And now I'm elected be the mayor of the city.
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: Mayor Eric Adams O Yimmy Oh Laurence.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club.
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: Good morning, wake that ass up in the morning.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club